About the Memorable Password Generator
A password you can genuinely remember is built from words, not from mangled letters with a dollar sign standing in for an S. This generator picks whole words at random from three lists, adjectives, nouns and verbs, using the cryptographic random source in your browser, then joins them with the separator you choose and can append digits and a symbol so the result satisfies sites with rigid composition rules.
Strength comes from the number of words. Each word is drawn from a pool of roughly 150 entries, worth about seven bits, so a four word phrase with two digits lands near 36 bits: fine for a forum account, not enough for anything holding money. The status line reports the estimate for the settings you picked, so you can watch the figure climb as you add words. Push to six or seven words for an account that matters, and let a password manager hold a fully random secret for the ones that really do.
Capitalising only the first word and separating with hyphens keeps a phrase quick to type on a phone, where hopping between symbol layers is what makes long random strings so painful. Never reuse the same phrase on two sites however good it reads. For a fully random character string see the Password Generator, and the Passphrase Generator is a close relative with a different word pool.
How to use
- Choose how many words each password should contain.
- Pick a separator and whether words are capitalised.
- Add trailing digits or a symbol if the site demands them.
- Read the entropy estimate in the status line, then copy a phrase you like.
Common questions
- How many words are enough?
- Four is reasonable for low value accounts. Use six or more where the account holds money or personal records.
- Are these passwords generated privately?
- Yes. The words are chosen in your browser with the Web Crypto random source, and nothing is transmitted or stored.
- Do the digits make it much stronger?
- Two digits add roughly seven bits, which is about the same as one extra word. Adding a word is easier to remember.
- Can I type these on a phone easily?
- That is the point of the hyphen separator and lowercase words, since neither needs a switch to a symbol keyboard.